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Breaking Your Day Up When Freelance Working Remotely

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Time management and daily structure strategies for remote freelancers.

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let's talk about breaking your day up if you're traveling and working remotely this isn't going to apply for people that are on that fixed schedule of the nine to five you don't really have a choice maybe you get a lunch break um but it's not really enough to do what i'm about to talk about but if you're working a job you're freelancing which i think is ideal um you're working a job where you choose your own hours you only really get four hours of super productive work before you need to reset and that is because the energy it takes to actually do highly focused work depletes over time and one of the ways that you can recharge that is exercise foods although that can make you sleepy depending what you eat so if you want to actually get two four hour work sessions done in the day and also enjoy yourself while you're traveling you can do what i do this is i get up in the morning if i got a pool in the hotel or the hostel jump in the pool wakes you up immediately start working go find a nice cafe somewhere get an iced coffee i'm in turkey right now and uh in melania and they i have they have iced coffee everywhere it's so good anyway go to a cafe set yourself a target four hours of work if you get up between eight and nine that will take you to twelve one that's an that's the perfect time to go take your stuff back to the hotel and work out or go in the sea i usually try and do a workout or go swimming or both do the workout and then go swimming and give yourself enough time take two hours out you're traveling take two hours out go and see the place go swimming then once you come back you've had some food do your next work session if you really focus in those times you will get more done than 90 of people who are sat in an office bored out of their mind struggling clock watching i can't imagine that let's have a moment of silence for all those people stuck in an office anyway split your work session up with exercise food and swimming eat something super light i said the type of food you eat affects it go get a salad or something it's not it's not girly to have a salad go and have a salad it's super light you get some protein you don't get heavy carbs it's not going to slow you down you're not going to feel like sleeping in the afternoon smash out your morning session exercise swim get some sun do your afternoon session close your laptop don't do these marathon 10 hour sessions you're just faking productivity it doesn't work unless you're like vitalik buterin or mark zuckerberg or something which i'm not not because if i was mark zuckerberg i'd probably be sat here with like a completely white sun cream face have you seen that photo very funny yeah recap then get up early don't waste your time hungover get up early jump in a pool four hours work close your laptop swim exercise eat nice food another four hours close your laptop do something else i've written a remote working guide it talks about the kind of jobs that you want to get where you can get them why you'd want to do this etc it's in the description below click the link and i'll send it to you it's completely free